Reason.tv makes some great videos. Here’s a recent one with Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch interviewing Rand Paul of Kentucky. It’s a little long (23 minutes) but it’s worth your while.
As Matt Welch says in the interview, you have to remind yourself that Senator Paul’s a Republican. He doesn’t sound much like your typical Republican senator (with the possible exceptions of Senators Coburn and DeMint).
I’m not old enough to have ever worked with a mechanical computer but I think they’re very interesting. The closest I ever got to one was a unit on display that used to sit in Everitt Lab (the old “electrical engineering building”) in Champaign-Urbana. I don’t know if it’s still there; I’ll guess that it’s still on campus somewhere.
Here’s a set of 7 videos I came across at engadget. The 7 clips are made from a U.S. Navy training film, circa 1953, for a shipboard fire control computer.
This is part 3 of 7.
Here’s the full list:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
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